In 2000, New York legislators recognized the ubiquitous and unambiguous connection between violence, especially gun violence and mass murder,
and the widespread prescribed use of psychiatric drugs. Senate Bill 7035 was introduced in the New York State Senate that year requiring police
agencies to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) on certain crimes and suicides committed by a person who is using psychiatric
drugs, including assault, homicide, sex offenses, robbery offenses, firearms and other dangerous weapons offenses, kidnapping and arson. The preamble
to the bill r

Now Forbes bows to political pressure? Lawrence Hunter seemed to have written an article linking SSRI s to multiple mass murder events, just to have
it pulled by ThePowersThat were.. Chaos has taken over at the MSM given that readership / views have fallen, revenues are down, and internet sites
like this one seem to be able to tell the news as it is causing stories to morph from their original story line.
Now you can read a pulled story.... that has evaporated from public view about big Pharma's link to this tragedy..
Also, with Democracy Now reporting that suicides in the Military are at an all time high (higher than all combat deaths).. We have to wonder if there
is a link to these drugs...
Shape your own opinion..

Those drugs are horrible, they make you into a zombified state of your former self. I took anti-depressants, prescribed by my doctor to quite smoking,
and let me tell you, those couple days I just wasn't me. Sure, it made every cigarette taste absolutely disgusting, but I felt horrible, inside and
out. I can only imagine how a young child who is forced and manipulated into taking these drugs feels. And usually they don't get a say in the
matter.

Mr. Hunter fails to mention that the The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, which claims to be “a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental
health watchdog”, is sponsored by the Church of Scientology. This in itself does not make their claims either wrong or right, but non-disclosure
does taint their message.

The remainder of Mr. Hunter’s essay takes the form of “Could it be…” without providing any evidence whatsoever substantiating his implied
claims. Whether this is due to an actual lack of such evidence or due to simple intellectual laziness is hard to tell.

The use of psychiatric drugs is a serious problem that deserves a more serious exposition than what Mr. Hunter has provided. Forbes, you can do better
than this.

Ooooooooooo, I dunno about the suicide rates being linked to these drugs in the military, but it is shocking to see the correlation between SSRI's
and Murder.

It seems more often than not, military suicide is linked to soldiers not receiving care due to their stressful duties(PTSD), Depression, remorse, so
on, so on.

People who are taking these medication are taking them for a reason. To claim that the medications actually cause them to commit murder is ridiculous
and baseless.

Maybe it has more to do with the medications not working and their condition. What is to say they wouldnt have commited the crime if they never too
the medications, or how many of these medications have actually stopped people from committing crimes.

Hold on now. Let's not completely blame these drugs. I know personally of numerous success stories. I bet there are a solid % of ATS members who take
SSRI's that would admit the medication has helped.
Let's look at it from a different angle. If you visit a doctor, and you show ANY signs of someone who could possibly endanger others, you're
probably gonna be put on some sort of medication. So what's to blame, the medicine, or the person?

Ooooooooooo, I dunno about the suicide rates being linked to these drugs in the military, but it is shocking to see the correlation between SSRI's
and Murder.

It seems more often than not, military suicide is linked to soldiers not receiving care due to their stressful duties(PTSD), Depression, remorse, so
on, so on.

People who are taking these medication are taking them for a reason. To claim that the medications actually cause them to commit murder is ridiculous
and baseless.

Maybe it has more to do with the medications not working and their condition. What is to say they wouldnt have commited the crime if they never too
the medications, or how many of these medications have actually stopped people from committing crimes.

...To claim that the medications actually cause them to commit murder is ridiculous and baseless....

I actually disagree, but not as much as you might think...

While it may seem baseless (and thus ridiculous) to claim it causes the tragedies.. it also seems equally ridiculous and baseless to assert the
opposite. Especially to those who have witnessed the changes in behavior of those taking the drugs.

Like many things, the industry-sponsored line of refusing to make a correlation seems to call attention to the discrepancy.

Of course these drugs have a use, and some can tolerate and endure the chemical changes they engender in them.... apparently... at least by
inference...not so much so for others.

This is why drugs alone should not be the "standard" "fix" for conditions that are not purely a matter of physiology.... unless we are prepared to
state that "everything" is physiological.

But I digress.

The point of the OP is about Forbes and the retraction of this story. My question now is; is this a blanket refusal by MSM to entertain the idea that
there may be a connection? Or is it because it is made by someone who has a Church of Scientology agenda behind his words?

It's a pity our journalists are mostly gone. I wonder what happened to them?

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am
paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of
you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear
in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his
country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our
possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

To the above posters.. these medications are dangerous.. specifically when mental illness isnt properly diagnosed and psychiatric meds are handed out
by general practitioners, pediatricians, etc.. and prescribed by a little booklet given to them by the pharmaceutical co. There is a HUGE problem with
actually diagnosing mental illness by physicians who ARE NOT qualified to do so.

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